Episode 269 — EXOSOMES Speak the Language of Repair
Guest: Jodi Repko • Date: August 21, 2025
Episode Overview
This episode explores how exosomes — tiny messengers from mesenchymal stem cells — can help calm inflammation, regulate the immune system, and support repair in autism. Nurse practitioner and autism parent Jodi Repko shares how they work and why they’re most effective as part of a multidisciplinary approach.
About Jodi Repko
Jodi Repko is the owner and founder of Restore Holistic Center, a functional medicine clinic that takes a multidisciplinary approach to health and healing. A board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 30 years in medicine, Jodi’s passion for innovative healthcare was sparked when her son was diagnosed with autism and apraxia. She has worked in regenerative, functional, and biomedical medicine, family practice, women’s health, emergency medicine, and complex care, including autism and PANS/PANDAS. Trained through The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs and The Autism Community in Action, she also brings 17 years of experience in adult and pediatric emergency settings, honing her diagnostic and assessment skills. Her personal journey into functional medicine, inspired by her son’s complex needs, led her to research, implement, and now specialize in treatments that help restore health and improve quality of life for children and families.
https://www.restoreholisticcenter.com/
You’ll Discover
What Exosomes Are and How They Differ From Full Stem Cell Therapy (3:34)
The Three Main Ways Exosomes Work (7:42)
The Underlying Issues That Impact Exosome Success (15:32)
Practical Considerations Before Starting Exosome Therapy (23:37)
Referenced in This Episode
MAPS – Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs: https://medmaps.org/
Full Transcript
Len Arcuri (00:01.326)
Hello and welcome to Autism Parenting Secrets. If you've explored advanced interventions, you've likely heard of stem cell therapy. But there's a related approach that's less known and could play a really important role in your child's healing journey. We're talking about exosomes, tiny messengers for mesenchymal stem cells that carry the body's repair signals. They can cross the blood-brain barrier, reduce inflammation, and help restore balance.
without introducing live cells. So this week I'm joined by Jody Repko, a board certified family nurse practitioner with over 20 years experience in medicine and she's a MAPS trained provider. Her journey into functional medicine began when her own son developed medically complex issues, igniting her passion to combine functional and traditional medicine. We're gonna explore what exosomes are
how they differ from stem cells, and what Jodi has seen in her practice when they're used as part of a multidisciplinary approach for children with autism. The secret this week is, exosomes speak the language of repair. Welcome, Jodi.
Jodi Repko (01:15.667)
Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. thank you. It's great to be here.
Len Arcuri (01:20.076)
Great. Well, great to see you. I'm excited to see you next month at the MAPS conference. And I think that the last one is when we talked briefly and we talked about what you do and this particular concept. And it's one that frankly, this whole field, let's just for lack of a better word, say stem cell related is one that I know a lot of parents are curious about. There's a lot of confusion, a lot of different options.
Jodi Repko (01:22.761)
Yes. Yes, thank you.
Len Arcuri (01:47.084)
So I love that we're having this conversation and I'm really hoping that you can demystify why this is an opportunity for parents to become educated about.
Jodi Repko (01:58.1)
Yeah, perfect. Thank you so much.
Len Arcuri (02:00.12)
Great. if you're meeting a parent who's just been diagnosed, who's been at this for a while and you had to boil this down into an elevator speech about exosomes, what are they and how they help? I know I gave kind of an overview, but in your own words, can you just give a little bit more about why you do what you do now and share as much or as little of your backstory as you think would be useful for our listeners?
Jodi Repko (02:26.899)
Yeah, perfect. Thank you so much. So first of all, so I did get into doing this because of my own son. looking for options. My son has autism, but also has apraxia. So when you look into what can really help with the apraxic piece, it's a lot more difficult, right? So, and when you're trying to figure out what could really go in and help that brain reconnect, because we know, and I know you know this very well, but that autism is not an intelligence issue. It's a, it's, there's a, when we get into that.
situation where we have those verbal challenges, there's very often a disconnect between the brain and the body where the signals they have the words are trying to say, they just can't get that to their mouth to say it. And so I was really researching like, do I go in and fix that? Because we did spelling to communicate, we found out that he's super, super intelligent. And we wanted to get in to see how do we try to help with that situation? How do we help with that apraxic piece? And so I did find
I was, you started researching exosomes from mesenchial stem cells. So what exosomes are, are basically are tiny messengers. They are packets of information. So I think of these as sort of an email or a FedEx package where they give coding instructions. Exosomes have been around since the very first cell. So it's the way that cells communicate with each other. So if you have like a cut on your right arm, then that...
is going to send out signals to your body and it's going to go send out specific signals to find, you know, a platelet to stop the bleeding and a white blood cell to try to keep it from getting infected and all these things. that around that cut, those cells are going to send out packets of information very specific to try to get other cells to that area. again, exosomes are ways that cells communicate with each other. So when you're research exosomes, you do have to be a little bit cautious because exosomes can be
wide range of things. kind of like just researching a cell. So we have many, many different types of cells and we have many different types of exosomes. So the exosomes that I'm referring to at this point are from mesenchial stem cells. And so this is from a placental origin. So absolutely no, we don't use any embryonic or anything like that. This is placental origin after a baby was born. They went in and harvested these cells from the Wharton's jelly and the umbilical cord.
Jodi Repko (04:48.063)
and from the placental area there, harvested those stem cells and then took those stem cells and put them in a Petri dish and they start to send out, and this is kind of not exactly how they do it, but a basic, they kind of put them in a dish and they start to send out signals in the form of exosomes and then those exosomes can be gathered up and utilized. So the benefit of them is that they are much more cost effective.
than stem cells, they are going to give you the power of stem cell without actually, like you mentioned, using the whole cell. Now this may be a good thing in some aspects and maybe, you know, sometimes we might need the whole cell, but in some instances we often do not need the whole cell because, you know, people may have ethical concerns about putting somebody else's DNA into our body. We may have some things like graft versus host reactions where we actually will
recognize somebody else's DNA as foreign and attack that. then stem cells themselves are too big. They're not able to cross the blood brain barrier and get into that area of the brain. And so exosomes, because they're so incredibly small, 800 times smaller than your average cell, they're able to cross the blood brain barrier and get in and work on neuroinflammation because the main three ways that we...
believe that exosomes work and where they're currently being researched in studies are for number one, calming inflammation. So this would be acute and chronic inflammation. we're using, we're seeing research that is showing that exosomes can calm acute and chronic inflammation. So like sports stars who are, have a high ankle sprain or throwing a fast ball for, you know,
pitching a no-hitter and they're throwing that fastball for multiple innings and now they've got inflammation in their shoulder so they'll go in and inject exosomes into those acute inflammation or chronic inflammation, things like arthritis or those. And autism, you know, not 100 % of the time but very often we have inflammation, right? So we know that things like Cochrane and Enhancer and a lot of these things will help our kids because we do have that inflammation piece.
Jodi Repko (07:02.799)
And very often we have neuroinflammation, so inflammation of the glia cells. So the fact that exosomes can cross the blood-brain barrier and actually get into that area is a really good thing because now we can find a way to try to calm that neuroinflammation. The other way that exosomes we know are helping is helping the immune system. So exosomes are currently being researched and studied.
And when I say exosomes, again, I mean exosomes from mesenchial stem cells. So again, there's lots of different types of exosomes, but exosomes from mesenchial stem cells are being researched and studied to help the immune system. So things like autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, all your lupus, all your autoimmune diseases, they actually are using exosomes to calm that because they have the ability to go in and to tell that immune system to calm down.
And then the third way is reparative or regenerative. a lot of exosomes, a lot of cosmetic surgeons or somebody has like a dog bite and they are trying to find a way to heal that and to keep it from having scarring. They're using exosomes for reparative and regenerative medicine, which again, that's where the fascination came with the apraxia. Does this have the ability to go in and help and repair and regenerate when we have some of those pathway issues?
So those are the main ways that they work, that we believe that they work. They are being researched and studied for that. There's a lot of really encouraging research that's out there. It is a newer science. So exosomes have been around since the very first cell, but they're so incredibly small we didn't really know they existed until around 2009. And so it is definitely a newer science. so is using mesenchial stem cells for autosomes is also a newer science.
Like I exosomes, because they were so incredibly solid, we didn't know they existed until we had microscopes powerful enough to see them. So definitely a newer science. But lots of research is very encouraging and showing a lot of great response.
Len Arcuri (09:01.418)
Okay, that's super clear to me. And yes, some key root causes, right, of what might be going on with a child in terms of that chronic inflammation and immune, let's just say, dysregulation, which is so apparent with so many kids, particularly on the spectrum. And I'm always very curious and focused on, for any intervention, what root cause is it really addressing and what, in terms of why would you even be considering it?
What about something like, and this is related to the two I just mentioned, but what about oxidative stress, which I know a lot of parents probably have heard, perhaps their medical provider talking about in terms of what the lab work shows. How do exosomes help with that?
Jodi Repko (09:49.994)
Well, again, because it's a newer science, we don't have exact research to show every way that they're working. do have the exosomes that I buy are here, local in the United States. They're from a local lab. And that lab has kind of mapped out what exactly is in those exosomes. And so all of those factors are things that are actually helping the immune system to work better. So the underlying pathophysiology of why are they
having that oxidative stress, I think that it's going to be more helping with the underlying issues there of trying to correct for those imbalances that's leading to that oxidative stress, that's leading to that problem. Because if you've got mitochondria issues or some of these immune system issues, and you've done this for a long time, and you know that often our little, and I shouldn't say little, but because some are adults, but.
our individuals and it could be even, you know, people who are not on the spectrum, but we just have these gut imbalances, right? We do stool testing and we see that we've got like salmonella or shigella that's out hanging out in there for years and years and years and they have no symptom of that. And salmonella and shigella are foodborne illnesses. So really when you pick up salmonella and shigella, you should spend some time in the bathroom, get rid of it and it should be gone. But, you know, we've got these stool tests that show that this is just hanging out in there and they have absolutely no symptoms. So why is it that
this is the immune system is not recognizing this as foreign. And that's a really great question of what is going on in the underlying issues. Why is the immune system not picking up this pathogen as a problem? But if we can go in and try to help for some of those immune system issues, then the immune system does pick up some of these things as foreign or a problem, or there's an underlying issue that's causing some of those mitochondria issues or oxidative stress. And then we have the potential to try to correct for that from the cellular level.
Len Arcuri (11:45.506)
Got it. Got it. Yeah. No, and I think everything you just shared is demonstrating how what might be happening with your child. It's never simple. It's complex. There's a lot of factors going on at once, but at a very high level though, if exosomes could be helpful, right, to help target the root causes that may be apparent, why is it that a person or in this case, let's say a child or an adult
why is it that their exosomes aren't doing what they're supposed to do? what would contribute toward us having a lack of the exosomes that we were given to be able to do this type of repair? And I'm guessing it has something to do with our toxic world, but I'll hand it off to you.
Jodi Repko (12:32.359)
I mean, definitely a great point. We definitely have a toxic world. so when you... Exosomes themselves are just the way cells communicate with each other. And so absolutely, you you're right in the fact that we have circulating exosomes all the time in the body. But when we look at like what's going on currently in our body and I'm not saying the body can't repair itself because it absolutely can. But if we look at what's going on in our body, then those exosomes are already circulating and they're not really making a difference of what currently is going on unless we...
have some kind of intervention, some kind of thing to change the trajectory of that. And so, but by using the placental, these are like the very first cells. Again, there's no harm to the baby. There's no embryonic. There's no ethical issues there at all. But baby was born, placenta was delivered, they're using exosomes from, stem cells from that placenta and using exosomes from that. So back to the very first now.
But there have been a few toxins into that placenta, sure, but we've got the very youngest cells that we could possibly get and we're using those to try to correct for some of those imbalances because most babies are not born with toxic overloads and cancers and dysregulated immune systems and autoimmune diseases and all these types of things. So if we can get back to those very beginning cells and use the
the hardware from those cells, then we have the potential to help our cells.
Len Arcuri (14:07.438)
All right, great. Now that makes sense. if a parent's listening and they're intrigued in terms of, and I know this is kind of cutting edge or at least evolving, right? In terms of our understanding of exosomes and how therapeutically they may help. If parents are wanting to dive into this more and maybe explore it with a practitioner, my guess is this is something that wouldn't be on the radar of a conventional pediatrician.
which is why a more, somebody with a more functional approach and more, you know, particularly a maps type practitioner, those are going to be the individuals who are going to be more aware and might be more helpful in helping you, the parent assess where this might fit in.
Jodi Repko (14:36.127)
I don't think so. Yeah.
Jodi Repko (14:52.723)
Yeah, I know, I can't imagine this would be on the radar of a traditional pediatrician. We have a hard time even getting them to check folate receptor antibodies, you know. So, yes, I do think it's an emerging science. So I do see that there are more MAPS doctors doing this. I do do this in my practice, but I absolutely agree. And I know you are very, very big on this. I have a multidisciplinary approach. So exosomes alone, stem cells alone are not gonna cure your child. If you are, you know,
And I'm not saying that you're looking for this per se, but the fast food drive through mentality of like, I'm not going to do any of the work and I'm just going to kind of go and get a stem cell treatment. I'm going to fly to another country, get a stem cell treatment and it will cure my child. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way because, know, for instance, exosomes do nothing if you have a folate receptor antibody positive. Exosomes or stem cells do nothing for folate, right? We have to still look at those factors. We have to look at the folate processing.
We have to look at the diet, have to look at toxins. I do not do exosomes on anybody until I know for sure that they don't have a, we generally do some kind of ODE or if you've had a biomedical evaluation or functional medicine evaluation, I would look at those labs because.
Because of the way these things work in the immune system, sometimes we do see an uptake in symptoms. If you're involved in a situation, like let's just say for instance, you're in a mold environment. Maybe you don't know it, maybe you know it and you didn't think it was much of a problem, but your child has kind of gotten used to being in that environment. And it's the same thing I was saying, like we see that sometimes that's salmonella and shigella because the immune system is not picking that up as a problem.
And so, you you may be in that environment and the immune system isn't picking that up as a problem and the child isn't really having those major symptoms. But after exosomes, because of the fact that it's, we do think it's helping the immune system, that sometimes we'll see a flare of that. Now I don't want to scare people to think that, you know, this treatment will cause a flare. Those are only in the situations where, you know, you have a mold exposure or some other.
Jodi Repko (17:02.875)
major high viral titers or something like that. But again, that's where we're going to look at multidisciplinary. I know all the other biomedical doctors who are doing exosomes also all implement that, that I've heard of anyway, implement that same technique where this is going to be something that can be added to, but not only used and also want to look at those factors beforehand.
But in the setting that, you know, if you get to that situation where we are implementing that multidisciplinary approach, we are seeing some really great responses. We're seeing some really good things happening, you know, increase in motor skills, fine motor growth smitter, increase in language. And I don't want to, you know, make false promises and tell people it's going to take your child from non-speaking to a fully verbal, but we are seeing improvements in language, both receptive and expressive.
and seeing more language, more attempts at language, better articulation, but again, not from non-speaking to fully verbal with just one treatment. But we are seeing, know, calming people being able to drop their children off at like church camps or church, you know, church, what's it like in the church daycares, know, whatever I'm trying to say, that when you can drop your child off and go to church, the child care for church, that's the word I'm looking for, sorry.
and actually go into service and, you know, be comfortable leaving your child because they're in a better situation. So call me. Better sleep. We've had some kids open up their palate, be able to eat much more. We've had a few kids who have become more mainstream now, have gone from ESC classrooms to just general education. We had one family who kind of monitored the IQ and after exosomes definitely had a really improvement in his IQ. So definitely seeing benefits, but again,
when combined with that multidisciplinary approach is definitely a vital thing to remember.
Len Arcuri (18:51.15)
Right. Yeah. So as you're talking, I'm hearing one, yes, this is one piece of an overall strategy that you may have. Um, you know, not the smoking gun, not the one thing that's going to overnight change everything, but could be a very important part of your strategy. So that's number one. And then number two is even if this might be something that's a good fit for, um, an individual really.
makes no sense to go down that road if certain other things either haven't been addressed, like let's say the mold, if they're being exposed to mold or in terms of the folate receptor, if there's issues there, it's important to kind of cover those bases first to really increase the odds of success. Is that fair?
Jodi Repko (19:35.008)
Well, not always first. Yeah, yeah. So it doesn't always have to be first. Sometimes we can equip rate them in like, you know, I may draw the folate receptor because part of how I give it is intranasal and intravenous. So if I'm giving an idea, I might be drawing the folate receptor for you. I can certainly do that. So we may be addressing that simultaneously. I think there are a few things we have to address first. You know, we should definitely think about like diet, cleaning up your environment, making sure you're
you know, you're not living in a really, really toxic environment. And then just, you know, I generally do some kind of screening tests, whether it be an oat or if you have a stool test from your provider, you have some testing from your provider. I'll take a look at those. But we do want to just take a peek and see because if you have the biggest, biggest one, honestly, for me is mold. I see that if somebody's got a really high mold and I'm not talking about like it's just a little tiny hit when, know, when it's like questionable is a mold is yeast.
But if they have a really high hit on that mold or there happened to be maybe living in an environment where there's mold and they didn't know that or maybe it hadn't shown itself yet, then sometimes we'll see that flare. So I do like to do a screening thing. But I do believe that we can do some of these things simultaneously. So it's not really like the icing on the cake. Like after you've put all the layers, you can put the icing on. It's more that these can be cumulative to help build, like we can be doing that full-late processing.
looking at that the frat test simultaneously we can looking at some of these things but just some baseline things in in place first and so I generally work with my families have some baseline things in place and then we can continue to build upon that you know so so definitely part of an approach for sure.
Len Arcuri (21:24.684)
No, I appreciate that clarification. Yes. So you don't have to wait for, know, and especially in terms of some of the things you mentioned, like let's say diet or environment, if you wait until you get all that quote unquote perfect, you know, that, that, makes no sense. So really, I think the, the, the gist of what you're saying is, yeah, take the actions to ensure the environment is, is, is, helps people thrive. If there's something toxic, do what you can to mitigate it. If you're
Diet is kind of riddled with processed food and chemicals, clean that up and improve that. And if you can get those things all in a better place, basically curating your environment, then yes, this intervention or this approach that you've articulated will again be much better able or the odds will be much higher that it has.
a positive effect that you're looking for, right? So you're just basically trying to create the conditions where this, along with the other things that you're doing, have more of an ability to take hold. And it's funny that you mentioned mold because people must think that I only invite people who talk about mold, but it's amazing how many practitioners and providers are all really seizing on this key stressor, which you didn't really hear too much about, let's say five years ago, even.
Jodi Repko (22:33.801)
Yeah.
Len Arcuri (22:45.23)
And so much more, so much of the science and so many of the leading thinkers looking at what's happening, it's a much bigger stressor than I think a lot of people are aware of. And because mold is technically everywhere, it's just a befuddling one to really figure out how do you know if you have a problem, how do you test for it? And I've had many episodes of people sharing that guidance.
Jodi Repko (23:09.331)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Len Arcuri (23:10.094)
But from your perspective, I guess the fact that you brought it up is that you've seen many instances where that is a key stressor that warrants action.
Jodi Repko (23:22.835)
for sure. it's, you know, it's just one of those things. Of course, there's other things, of course, that we need to look at. mean, but it's just one of the things that I do from experience doing this, you know, the kids who had a little bit of a flare. So again, it's not every child that has a flare, but the kids who've had a little bit of a flare, you know, as I'm working with the parent, because I'm always working with the parents. if you, you know, if you were, if you did this for your son and you reached afterwards, you said,
hey, he's stemming a little bit or something, you know, a little more than he used to, then I'm gonna work with you. And as I'm working with the parent, then we find out there was possibly a mold in their house. But again, it's not every kid. It's just one of the things that I do look at beforehand, you know, so there's a few things I want to have in place. Because the goal here, and my goal is always is, you know, I'm not, I'm in this to try to help. I'm trying to help my son, I'm trying to help other parents, I'm trying to help our beautiful...
children or population who do struggle with their body. And we're not talking about we have to get rid of autism. I'm talking about we have to help the underlying symptoms that these individuals are struggling with. And so if we can make the quality of life somewhat better, then that's the ultimate goal. And so as we're looking at these things, again, I don't want to do a treatment. I mean, there's some places you can go. You can call a clinic in Mexico or India or something, and they may
They may require nothing. just say, as long as your chak pashas come on down and we'll do this treatment. But then what happens after you get the treatment and you may have a flare or you may not get the results that you really are looking for because when you put money into a stem cell or an exosome treatment, exosomes are much, much, much, much cheaper than a stem cell. But it's still money and you still want to see some kind of return on your investment rate. You want to see that.
I put this money in, I did see some positive things or I saw a lot of positive things or I saw this, we want to see good things come out of this. so if we look at a few things beforehand and put some of those things in place, I find that we have more success and less issues afterwards. And any stem cell product, all of the stem cell clinics are gonna tell you, you may have some hyperactivity, you may have some stemming, you may have some things, it's just...
Jodi Repko (25:43.392)
kind of the way that the cells are working. Could it be playing a little histamine in your kid? Could it be causing a little bit of the immune system to work a little better? There's many different things that could be going on, but that's where I'm gonna work closely with you to try to figure out what that is. It doesn't always have to be mold. It could be, there could be a little bit of a histamine player. And so we need to take care of that, you know, make sure, and there's things I put into place. I generally put people on antihistamines, you know, when they're doing it, I generally put them on PEA.
So I have, I make sure they're on a good probiotic for their gut health, even if they've done a ton of gut health, just, you if they have a perfect gut, then that's different, otherwise we want to just kind of keep the probiotic in place. There's just certain criteria, there's certain things I will work with the families on, make recommendations for. And, you know, like I said, we're, at the end of the day, we're just trying to get the most success possible and really, really have a heart to help people.
Len Arcuri (26:38.306)
Great. Yeah. And I also, you started with a key concept, which is something that's so hard for parents, right? We all, think, have a default where we just want something that's quick, that doesn't take a lot of effort, that might really help a lot. And in this space, especially, there's a lot of people who will basically meet that desire. And so it's really hard to have restraint as a parent, right?
to take the time to understand, understand what your options are. And again, know that this is more complex than a single thing that's going to move the needle significantly that it is about coming up with that right strategy of all the things that you might be able to do to meet your child's needs. And that's where, again, that's really hard to do on your own in isolation based on searching online, which is why having some people who can guide you, whether it's a
a medical practitioner or a holistic practitioner. mean, there's a lot of different people who have different expertise and this emerging field is really one that's important to have somebody who understands it well and can advise. Because again, best case is maybe you just waste money, worst case is something that's well-intended might make things more complicated or more challenging. So you want to make sure you're getting guidance from people who really can't have that.
perspective to help you see how this fits in. And then if you choose to go down this road to implement it well. yeah, I appreciate you sharing a little bit more about what this road looks like. For parents who want to get started and to learn more, can you share a little bit about what you would suggest to them and also explain how people can get in touch with you if they want to leverage your expertise?
Jodi Repko (28:33.395)
Yeah, perfect. Thank you so much. So the other thing I wanted to mention is just what you just said about, know, so marathon. So trading autism, I tell parents it's more of a marathon of a sprint. Once in a great while, we have those aha moments where, you know, somebody just takes away gluten and dairy and their kid just kind of suddenly wakes, you know, like recovers almost starts talking fully. But generally speaking, we do have to implement several things all at once. And then we do know just
You you guys are obviously great examples of that. That as we implement things, so we can start moving that needle closer and closer to recovery. And again, it's not only about recovery, it's about helping the bodies to work better. We want all of us as parents, and I'm a parent of an autistic, apraxic son, but all of us want the same things we want for any other of our children to be able to go to college, to be able to be married, have a family, all these kinds of things.
if they want those things, whatever they want to do with their life. So I do want to just mention this aspect. I'm not saying that exosomes are absolutely better than stem cells. It's just be careful who you go to. Always really, really look at your stem cell clinics or anybody who's giving you exosomes, the quality of the actual cells, not just the provider because...
providers are obviously very important, but also the quality of the cells you're getting because there are sometimes stem cells can be grown on bovine medians, you know, so you can, they can sell, they can take those cells and they can culture them out on bovine medians. So you're actually mixing cow DNA with, those, that median of that cow is going to have exosomes that express from that. So you have, you know, human DNA, you also have some cow DNA in there.
So you have to be a little bit careful about where the actual product is coming from. The clinic that I buy from is in the United States. Exosomes and stem cells are not FDA approved. They can be given completely fine in the context of a provider relationship with informed consent. So it is something that is fine to do, but you just want to make sure the quality of the cells you're using is good. Now the cell line I use,
Jodi Repko (30:54.395)
lab was, is FDA inspected? Again, it's not FDA-proof, but FDA-inspected. And this cell line was actually harvested pre-COVID, so you have no risk of messenger RNA, spike protein, anything related to the pandemic in these exosomes. There's no bovine median, anything like that. So again, just be cautious. Always, if you as a parent are going and calling a stem cell clinic, inquire about the quality of the cells. If they're going to tell you something, just look it up.
because you may not understand, but look up what that means. As far as getting a hold of me, I do have a practice restore holistic center. I'm located in Ocala, Florida, so not very far from Orlando, Florida. So it's when you, if you flew into Orlando, you could come see me. Lots of stuff to do in Orlando, know, lots of Disney parks and SeaWorld and Universal Studios and all that kind of stuff. There's also lots of other beautiful things to do in Florida if you're not a theme.
park person, lots of beaches and natural springs. But I am located in Florida, so you don't have to travel international. And I would definitely put you on, know, any parent that reaches out to me is going to get a full, you know, if you don't have a biomedical doctor currently, we can discuss that of how to get you in place. I would never take you from your biomedical doctor, but we would kind of work together to make sure we have the right pieces in place to try to get you the most success possible.
So yeah, so restore holistic center.
Len Arcuri (32:24.3)
Wonderful. Yep. I will include all that in the show notes. And again, I think I benefited from a deeper understanding of this particular option. And I think a lot of the guidance that you shared in terms of being more discerning with whether you do this and if so, how you do it and who you work with, that's all important, I think, for a parent to hear. So Jody, I really appreciate you taking the time to share your insights with my audience. again, looking forward to seeing you at the conference next month.
Jodi Repko (32:47.592)
Yeah.
Jodi Repko (32:53.981)
Yes, yes. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate you.
Len Arcuri (32:57.804)
You bet.
Jodi Repko (32:59.594)
Thank you.
